Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-12-23

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The citizens Of Maine know how to do
their duty.
rsmpsrancs Republicans in New York.
The Anti-saloon Republican conference
held in Syracuse, New York. last week
was an important and successful meeting
Of prominent and active temperance men
in that State. The speeches and the reso-
buttons were strong and elevated in tone
and show bold and vigorous determine
ton to push all practical measures for the
suppression Of the liquor saloons. Judge
Noah Davis. venerable in years and of high
character AZ citizen and a jurist, one Of
the foremost friends of Temperance in the
land, was the chairman Of the asseInblage
and voiced it, best sentiments. He said
II this was a convention to nominate men
for well paid Offices it would not be difficult
to ill this hall with bummers who would run
the machine. Bg. you are strong in princi-
pies which touch the human heart and which
take hold npon God. This conflict is forced
on US By an enemy. We have submitted too
long. Honest, intelligent men have no right
to shrink from battle with the liquor deal
ers In our last political campaign in tn
State we had forced upon us novel questions.
Il il not enough to shock every thinking man
that the liquor interest should demand the
sacrifice Of the American Sabbath to their
interest? Yet this demand was made by the
liquor dealers and the Personal Liberty party.
II the Republican party will not meet that
issue, so surely il the Republican party
doomed to the condemnation Of God and the
American people. Every Republican will
mite with us in demanding from that party
that its position shall be unequiyocal on the
liquor question, and that it shall take ground
in favor of the utter extirpation of the liquor
traffic. do not care what that step shall be
so long az it advances US towards that con-
summation. As long as the party conscien-
tionsly supports the steps taken to extirpate
the liquor traffic it should have our support
In the City Of New York we have prob
lem Of magnitude which you who live in
the country cannot imagine. 1t is place
where the saloon never sleeps, where there
are thousands Of men behind it, where it has
millions of capital You would the
necessity, if you lived there, of adopting a
different line of attack on the saloons to that
to be followed in the country. Let us go on
bravely in our work and try to put the Re-
publican party in a position where it must
stand or receive the thunderbolt Of right
eous God Applause.
The platform was then adopted as it came
from the hands Of the committee. 1t is as
follows:
We, the representatives of the New York
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nual session assembled, do hereby declare,
that because there is an irrepressible conflict
between the liquor traffic and Christian civiii-
cation and the wisest moral political policies
of our country; therefore, this convention
reiterates the grounds of hostility to the
drinking saloons heretofore set forth in the
addresses of our National and State conven-
tons and declares that in our judgment the
saloons ought to be utterly eXtirpated, not
only for the reasons urged in such addresses,
but also because the proprietors and conduc-
tors Of such saloons have now combined in
open warfare against the american Sunday
by demanding that all parties shall yield that
sacred institution to the dissertation and
abuses of their unholy business.
That the conflict between law and good
order. the saloons and the brewers and dis
tillers who supply and maintain them has now
reached point where the Republican party
must either accept the issue and with no I'M
certain sound declare its position of deter
mined hostility to these organized enemies of
the good morals and the sacred institutions of
our land or abandon its claims to be the
party of law and order, opposed to vice and
crime, Anarchy, Nihilism and Socialism aud
their attendant evils.
That the example of the late election in
it"hss wanna mas SHOWN no" Wise anu po'''ic